Episode · This Week in Startups · 2021-08-20

Books mentioned on Rapid fire news: OnlyFans bans sexual conduct + Boston Dynamics, Disney & Tesla bet big on robots | E1269

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Jason breaks down the OnlyFans' pivot away from sexual conduct (1:54), then he covers all the robot highlights from this week, Boston Dynamics robots doing backflips (23:34), Disney creating AI characters (31:25), and Tesla's announcement of "TeslaBot" (38:21) & more.

Jason Calacanis discussed Westworld by Michael Crichton.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Westworld

   Michael Crichton · at 34:39

   Michael Crichton's novel Westworld presents a dystopian science-fiction premise where human visitors enter a simulated environment populated by sophisticated robots, raising complex questions about human-robot interaction and artificial consciousness.

   Discussed

   “just like uh the michael crichton novel westworld which became a movie which became a great hbo series we don't want anyone thinking that's the most sophisticated robot i ever encountered”

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